We are lucky that in Alexious’ new post, she is already contributing her talents to the people of not just one country, but two: Guinea and Sierra Leone. So we really need to clone her for this assignment. Both countries have extensive natural resources with some of the world's most valuable metal and mineral deposits, including green minerals like bauxite that are needed to power the clean energy technologies of the future. These resources have incredible potential to help fuel the region's economy and fund basic services that citizens so need, basic infrastructure for the Guinean and Sierra Leonean people. But, of course, too often, when such resources exist, the wealth that could have been generated has vanished into corruption, into graft. 

Ten years ago today, the World Health Organization declared that an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone was a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Sixteen months later, the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history would finally end but not before the disease reached 10 countries, claimed 11,325 lives, infected more than 28,600 people, and upended millions of lives.

The U.S. Government through USAID partners with Pangea Global Ventures to announce a new, joint $3 million investment in Sierra Leone’s agricultural private sector.

The U.S. Agency for International Development launched  a three-year, $2.28 million dollar peacebuilding activity on September 28, 2023, in Sierra Leone.

The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $8 million in assistance to support the rapid response to the Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Guinea, and to strengthen Ebola preparedness in seven high-risk border countries across East Africa and West Africa (République de Côte D'Ivoire, Republic of Liberia, Republic of Mali, Republic of Rwanda, Republic of Senegal, Republic of Sierra Leone, and Republic of Uganda).